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9 Jan 2021 LONDON, United Kingdom

Counting The Cost Of Climate Change To The World's Economy

Christian Aid's annual assessment of weather disasters reports an estimated $150 Billion USD in damages in 2020, reflecting long-term impact of global warming.An estimated 4 Percent of the economic losses from climate-related extreme events occurred in low-income countries were insured, compared to 60 Percent in high-income countries...

15 Sep 2020 SYDNEY, Australia

Climate Change May Displace Over 1.2 Billion People By 2050

More than 1.2 billion people are at threat of being displaced by 2050, due to environmental change, conflict and civil unrest, warns a new report by think tank the Institute of Economics & Peace.Predictions include that by 2040, 5.4 billion people – more than half of the world's projected population – will live in the 59 countries experiencing high or extreme water stress, including India and China...

11 Aug 2020 DHAKA, Bangladesh

Bangladesh To Seek Chinese Support For Teesta River Restoration Project

Bangladesh’s Ministry of Water Resources is set to seek funding for an estimated $985 Million USD to implement a “Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project”, possibly with support from China, as discussions with India over management of the river are perceived to have been unproductive...

25 Oct 2019 Washington DC, United States

Remarkable US Army Climate Change Report Studies Conflict Risk, What Caused Syria War, Bangladesh Risk, Geo-engineering!

A combination of global starvation, war, drought and disease could have devastating effects on world security according to a report from several United States agencies including the US Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA, under the rubric of the United States Army War College.The study, “Implications of Climate Change for the U...

3 Feb 2019 NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar

Myanmar Considers Alternatives To Controversial China-funded Dam, Cardinal Speaks Out Against Project

A Myanmar government project commission is considering alternatives to the controversial Chinese-backed Myitsone Dam on the Irrwaddy River in the northern state of Kachin, which is politically unstable. The project has been stalled since 2011 in the face of considerable public opposition due to environmental and social impacts...

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4 Dec 2018 Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Honduras: Seven Convicted Of Murder Of Respected Anti-Dam Activist Berta Caceres

A court in Honduras has found seven men guilty of the murder of renowned environmental activist Berta Caceres who was shot dead in her home by gunmen in 2016 after receiving death threats for her opposition to the Aqua Zarca hydro-electric dam.Judges at the court in Tegucigalpa November 29 said two officials from the construction firm Desa - Sergio Rodríguez and Douglas Bustillo - had helped organize the killing along with former soldier Mariano Díaz...

29 Oct 2018 PASIGHAT, India

Students Protest China "Misuse", India "Indifference" Over Brahmaputra

Students in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh held a protest rally October 24 to demand a water treaty with China in response to recent geological river disasters in China which threatened flooding of downstream regions of India, forcing the evacuation of thousands.In response to two geological disasters in recent weeks, leaders of three federal units of All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union  (AAPSU) claimed that China has hatched a conspiracy against India and has created "man-made disasters" in Arunachal Pradesh and downstream Assam...

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18 Sep 2018 MANILA, Philippines

ADB Loan Will Help Protect Yangtze River's Lonxi Watershed

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $150 Millian USD loan to protect a water basin of China's Yangtze River.The ADB said September 18 that the loan for a "complementary set of initiatives to improve flood management, clean water supplies, and ecological conservation in the Longxi River watershed is a key project under ADB's new Yangtze River Economic Belt Framework" which will provide around 2 billion U...

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18 Aug 2017 WARRENTON VA, United States

India Roundup: China Criticized over Info-block, Brahmaputra Treaty Urged, India and US “Sabotage” Indus Treaty?, Dam Protest Violence Warning, Kerala/Tamil Nadu, Karnataka/Telangana, Sustainable Sugar Initiative and More

India Criticizes China Over Block on InfoAt a time when major rivers in Himachal Pradesh are in spate due to heavy rain, lack of information from China on water inflow from the Pareechu rivulet that flows through the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) has prompted India’s Central Water Commission (CWC) to seek intervention of the ministry of water resources (Hindustan Times)...

16 Aug 2017 WARRENTON VA, United States

China Roundup: Water Quality Improving, Deadly Storms Cause Landslides and Dam Breach, Beihatan Dam Construction Commences, Polluted River Media Stunt, South-North Transfer: Farms Closed and More

Uneven Progress in Reducing Water PollutionChina's water quality is improving overall but progress is uneven, with some regions finding it hard to meet the annual quality improvement targets, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said Monday. Xinhua reported August 14th that in the first half of the year, the proportion of monitored surface water reaching Grade III or above, which could be used for drinking, rose to 70 percent across the country, up 1...

5 Oct 2016 SEOUL, South Korea

Two UN Agencies Assist in North Korea Floods

North Korea’s state media (KCNA) has reported that the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) are to offer assistance in post-disaster recovery efforts in the country’s North Hamgyong ProvinceKCNA also reported last week that regional ally China has offered relief...

26 Sep 2016 BEIJING

Chinese ‘Sponge Cities’ Seek to Turn Water Challenges into Opportunities

Flooding is actually rated as one of the most destructive natural hazards in China with damage mostly experienced across cities, as a result of heavy summer rainfall. In an effort to avoid the effect of the loss of green and open spaces within cities, and the related social, economic and environmental costs, in 2013 the Chinese Central Government called for the widespread adoption of, ‘the sponge city' approach, providing the necessary financing for pilot activities across 16 urban districts for 2015 and 14 for 2016.

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